Recently, a friend of mine circulated a petition to stop the development of the F-35 because of the impact to our deficit. My friend is a collectivist. While I support the notion of reducing our federal spending and have not investigated the merits of said fighter plane to our current and future theatres of operation, I am quickly grounded to something called proportion when I see information such as the following from the Heritage Foundation. Even if the F-35 was a boondoggle, it is not as egregious as entitlement spending which represents on American stealing from another. At least in the case of the F-35, it is spending that goes towards the common defense (something, by the way, our federal government is constitutionally bound whereas confiscation for entitlements oppose the mandate of the fed gov't).
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/10/federal-spending-by-the-numbers-2012
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